New pc for father dearest

RickST

RickST

RickST

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Hi Everyone,
Firstly I would like to say thanks to the people who helped me a week or so ago spec'ing a work machine. Its fantastic, so thank you.

Now on to the matter at hand. My dad has had a Dell XPS for the last 10 years but its now struggling to play the games he likes (black ops for example). So I have decided to get him one for Christmas.

What I would like is a machine that will last for a while, and won't cause him any drama. I am happy to build or buy pre-built. I am also happy to do some light overclocking for him.

The machines primary purpose will be Gaming as he has a laptop for internets and work. He games on a 20" screen, so I guess 1280x800 or something like that.

I have no real attachment to AMD or Intel.

For budget, I would like to spend around £750.

Sorry for the essay but I really want to get this right. Thank you in advance for your time.

Rick
 
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE CODMW2 PC-Game £194.99
(£165.95) £194.99
(£165.95)
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £144.98
(£123.39) £144.98
(£123.39)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £40.98
(£34.88) £40.98
(£34.88)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £34.98
(£29.77) £34.98
(£29.77)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £644.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £114.92
Total : £771.62

Stuck a better board on, hopefully you get free delivery!
 
Thank you very much, Only change I think I would make would be to use the Antec 300 case. as I have built 4 machines with that case recently.

Other than that it looks pretty tasty. Thanks.
 
came up with something for amd, leaves change to swap to the antec 300 if you really want too, didn't realise the price had gone up so much for them :eek::


Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £194.99 (£165.95)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £149.99 (£127.65)

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £104.97 (£89.34)

Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £69.99 (£59.57)

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99 (£56.16)

Coolermaster Sileo 500 Silent Case - Black £63.99 (£54.46)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £40.98 (£34.88)

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1156/1366) £19.99 (£17.01)

LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA - 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD) 48x (CD) / 24x (DVD±R) /12x (DVD±R DL) 32x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW) / 12x (DVD-RAM) - Internal - Black £11.97
(£10.19)

Sub Total : £615.21
Shipping : £12.50
VAT : £109.85
Total : £737.56
 
Sorry to bring back the thread but....

i wanted to say, thanks mp260767 for taking the time to spec that, i didn't see your reply before it dropped of the front page :)

The only question I have is, is it going to be worth waiting for "Sandy Bridge"? or is that likely to be out of my price range. I don't really like the idea of giving him and IOU on Christmas day but if the performance boost is worth it?

Thanks again for the great specs, very tempted to give the old man some AMD tech
 
You would show it to him and he'd be like "What? That's my old computer!", until you open it up! You could pimp out the insides with CCFL tubes etc, then put it under the Christmas tree all lit up!
 
That would be epic, but he's not really into the building side of things, so I would just be sat in the study on my own building a computer... not how I want to spend Christmas really.

Going to order it now, still massively torn between AMD and Intel though.
 
Might be a bit iffy building a computer on Xmas eve just in case something is dead on arrival which needs to be RMA'd and stops the system from functioning. Chances are slim, but I just know from my own luck I would get a duff part if I was building it the day before Xmas. :p

PS it's cool that your old man likes to game! :D
 
SouthEastBlue said:
Might be a bit iffy building a computer on Xmas eve just in case something is dead on arrival which needs to be RMA'd and stops the system from functioning. Chances are slim, but I just know from my own luck I would get a duff part if I was building it the day before Xmas. :p

PS it's cool that your old man likes to game! :D
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Hey, that's not so unusual, my sons dad also builds his own PC's. :D Apart from the RMA issue it would be good to get more people involved in building the PC, I'm sure OC will be open on Boxing day to help out LoL!


Andi.
 
Yeah its pretty cool, He loves pwning me and my older brother on COD. Its a good way to keep in touch when we all moved away.

I have order and Intel spec slightly modified from RJC's spec. Just need to find a lovely copy of windows somewhere.

I totally failed on budget, I always see stuff for £10 more etc, so ended up with £810
 
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